Sample menu for 9 month old

iristony

What is suggested at each meal?  I would be interested in seeing what people that are mostly on jarred baby food have to say, or partly on jarred baby food.  Example- fruit at breakfast, veggie at lunch, etc...

Alexandra*sMom

We are not on baby food at all.

Breakfast was dry rice krispies and banana chunks.

Lunch was tiny cubes of grilled cheese sandwich and blueberries.

DD eats what we eat.

AlishaMay

This is what we are doing right now, but it's requiring some tweaking here and there because their appetites are starting to increase!

Breakfast: 5-6 oz formula, 3 Tbsp cereal (rice or oatmeal, sometimes mixed), 4 Tbsp fruit + finger foods

Lunch: 5-6 oz formula, 1 Tbsp cereal, 2 Tbsp fruit, 4 Tbsp veggie + finger foods

Dinner: 5-6 oz formula, 4 Tbsp veggies, 2 Tbsp meat/beans, 2 Tbsp fruit + finger foods

Bedtime bottle: 6 oz formula with 1.5 Tbsp rice cereal.  We do the cereal at bedtime because of their acid reflux.

numeria11

We do homemade but it is still all purees so I will still answer.  We do:

Breakfast: 3-4 ozs of Cereal mixed with some sort of fruit + 7 oz bottle

Lunch: 2 2 oz containers 1 w. fruits or yogurt and 1 w. meats mixed with veggies + 6oz bottle

Dinner:  1 2 oz container of veggies + 7 oz bottle

We generally give some sort of finger food with each meal now as well (probably only 1-2 tablespoons max a meal):  things like banana, peaches, tofu cubes, cheerios, chopped meats

 

iristony

That is awesome.  Between working full time and having a million errands to do on weekends, I do not have time to plan my own meals.  I need to get with it.  I think I want to do mostly jarred food (I do Earths Best Organic) until son is a year.  I am gonna try and incorporate in some grilled cheese and other food.  Just trying hard to get his veggies in... 

vagirl06

We are still on Formula and Stage 2 baby food.  She gets about 30 oz of formula througout the day.

For daycare we send the following:

Stage 2 Gerber Fruit mixed with cereal.  They feed it to her around 9am.

Stage 2 Gerber vegetable.  They feed it to her around 1pm

For dinner at home, she'll either get another Stage 2 (rotate fruit and veggie) or a Yo Baby yogurt.  We'll also give her some puffs or a mum-mum.

numeria11

Don't beat yourself up it is really hard to get them on a good schedule for eatting for a while.  I work FT as well so daycare does all the feedings I just mentioned, I get the easy part nurse her before she goes and when she gets home and maybe give her a chuck of banana in a morning when we are getting ready.  On the weekends I am lucky if I can get in two meals of solids with her, esp if we have to go out and do erands, then who knows.    My DD still gags and makes this awful face on anything that isnt pretty mushy, so I don't see grilled cheeze in our future anytime soon.

Alexandra*sMom

iristony:

I think I want to do mostly jarred food until son is a year.

Why?  My older girls refused to be fed by 9 mo.  Dylan refused a 7.5 mo.  I guess I would rather them feed themself than to fight them at every meal.  Unless your DC likes to be fed....  mine just never have!

KristinKD

DD2 was resistant to table foods in the beginning so at nine months she was just starting to get into them. A typical menu:

 

Breakfast: puffed rice cereal + fruit puree + banana pieces

Lunch: plain whole milk yogurt + fruit puree

Dinner: rice cereal + veggie puree + chicken (chopped finely in food processor) + peas

 

To help her adjust to the textures of table food, I would mix things like the banana pieces or peas into her purees while also putting some on her tray so she could try to pick them up herself.

PinkPeony6210

Here is what we do. The table foods vary from day-to-day.

Wake-up (6:30)- 7oz bottle

Breakfast (9:00) - 5oz bottle + 1/2 container of stage 2 fruit + 3tbsp of oatmeal + banana, pancake, or toast

Lunch (1:00) - 5oz bottle + 1/2 container of vegetable + 1/2 container of fruit + cheese, pasta, etc.

Mid-afternoon (4:00) - 7oz bottle

Dinner - (6:00) - 1/2 container of vegetable + 3tbsp of oatmeal + meat, grilled cheese, vegetable, or pasta

Bedtime (7:00) - 7oz bottle

BelhurstBride

No jarred food here, never have.

Breakfast: Not entirely sure because DH fed her. I know a banana was involved b/c he left the peel on the counter. 

nurse

Lunch: leftover Kalbi, kiwi, cheddar cheese and some Nutella on a cracker

nurse

Dinner: We're having chicken soup I made earlier in the week so she'll have chicken and vegetables out of that. 

nurse

Generally, she eats what we eat. 

LALASEPT05

We're mostly on jarred baby food (Earth's Best) and I try to incorporate some regular food as well. This weekend I made chicken pot pie, turkey meatballs, and they ate those things. We also do yogurt, cheese, pastina in broth, toast with cheese, etc. I want to start scrambled eggs, waffles, soon too. Schedule is as follows:

7:30am Earth's Best Wholesome Breakfast (along with a little fruit or yogurt)

9:30am 8oz formula

12pm Earth's Best Dinner with a 1/2 jar veggie also maybe some cheese

1:40pm 8oz formula

4:30pm Oatmeal cereal and fruit/ veggie mix (I have found mixes that include apples and carrots and spinach peas and pears etc)

7:10pm 8oz formula

ElleDub912

Seems like my DD doesn't eat much compared to most but this is our schedule:

 Breakfast (7:00)

 6 oz. formula

1/2 stage 2 jar fruit + 1 tbsp. oatmeal

 

Snack (10:30)

 6 oz. formula

 

Lunch (11:30)

1/2 jar fruit + 1/2 jar veggie

 

Snack (2:00)

6 oz. formula + puffs

 

Dinner

(5:00) 6 oz formula

(6:00) 1/2 jar stage 3 "meal" + 1 tbsp. rice or barley cereal 

 sometimes some steamed veggies

 

Bedtime (7:15)

6 oz. formula 

amanda31H

LOL...Ummmm my girls seem like big eaters now!!

Wake Up 8 am - 6 oz bottle

Breakfast 10 am - 1/3 cup cereal, 3 oz fruit

12:30 - 5.5 oz bottle

2:00 Lunch - 1/2 Yo Baby Yogurt, 1/4 cup cereal, 1 to 2 oz fruit

4:30 - 5.5 oz bottle

6:00 Dinner - 4 oz vegetables, 2 oz fruit

7:30 pm - 6 oz bottle

My pedi wanted them to have cereal 3 times a day....I think I'm going to keep it at 2 times because they eat a fair amount of it in 2 sittings.  Also, I may try to switch out the lunch fruit for a veggie... we'll see. 

I give the puffs throughout the day (usually when waiting for a meal), and a mum-mum once a day.

 

soldiersgirl78

Here's our schedule:

@5am or whatever ungodly hour he gets up  6-8 oz formula

9:00  @ 5 tsp multi-grain cereal mixed with 1 tub stage 2 fruit (it basically fills the gerber bowl

10:00  8 oz bottle

1:00  1 tub stage 2 veggie, 1 tub stage 2 fruit, puffs, water in sippy

3:00  8 oz bottle

5:45  1 jar stage 2 meat, 1 tub yo baby yogurt, puffs, water in sippy

7:15  8 oz bottle then bed

HTH!

Chelz

DS has banana chunks first, then something else (whatever we have, such as blueberries, strawberries, o cereal) then I give him a container of Gerber food (Pears & cinnamon w/ oatmeal - or - apple cinnamon oatmeal - or - pear blueberry oatmeal).  About 30 minutes later he'll have about 4 oz formula/bottle.  I BF at naptime and bedtime.

DS only self feeds o cereal, mums, dried fruit - he likes to be fed the fruit and likes to be spoon fed, at this point)

DS eats a lot of regular food we eat.  He eats fruit and veggies, mostly.  I have fed him spoon food with meat and tried giving him chicken.   I always feed him real food first, then spoon food, then bottle.